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CaptainSim B-52 Exterior model released
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JamesChams
Guest
Are all 8 engines "linked" to 8 seperate Throttle Axis' or just 4 from the default 747 :ques:
FYI: I'm just one of those people who are waiting for the entire package.
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
FYI: I'm just one of those people who are waiting for the entire package.
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
Odie
Charter Member
Just loaded this one up for a flight out of KBAD, a nautural habitat for the BUFF. I'm at 15,000 feet, crusin' and really liking what I'm seeing from the spot view. For my money, I got what I was expecting.
Flying with the substitute VC isn't that bad for me. As I stated in another thread, I spend most of any given flight outside of the cockpit, entering it to take-off/adjust course/land/taxi, so it's not as jarring to me. Once you leave the cockpit and go to the spot view, oh yeah, it's a BUFF. Typical Captain Sim model...looks very good. Huzzahs to CS for top notch eye-candy!
I can understand the reluctance to go without a full model inside and out, but for me and how I fly, this will work very nicely. I spent my kid years around these leviathans at Barksdale AFB with my dad. I would look up and see them, hear them at night as the sound of their engines would drown out the TV. Being able to have this in FSX is worth the price of admission.
The potential is there for a great package if Captain Sim moves forward with develop of the inside model. From what I've read, that's the time-consuming part of development. If they get that part right, an aviation legend will have a proper place in FSX.
Flying with the substitute VC isn't that bad for me. As I stated in another thread, I spend most of any given flight outside of the cockpit, entering it to take-off/adjust course/land/taxi, so it's not as jarring to me. Once you leave the cockpit and go to the spot view, oh yeah, it's a BUFF. Typical Captain Sim model...looks very good. Huzzahs to CS for top notch eye-candy!
I can understand the reluctance to go without a full model inside and out, but for me and how I fly, this will work very nicely. I spent my kid years around these leviathans at Barksdale AFB with my dad. I would look up and see them, hear them at night as the sound of their engines would drown out the TV. Being able to have this in FSX is worth the price of admission.
The potential is there for a great package if Captain Sim moves forward with develop of the inside model. From what I've read, that's the time-consuming part of development. If they get that part right, an aviation legend will have a proper place in FSX.
I think FSX have a limitation of 4 engines, in this case engines are linked by pair, so more than 4 throttles is useless in FSX... I can be proven wrong tho.:mixedsmi:
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JamesChams
Guest
Mr. "Josquin,"
Thanks for the info.; I saw that limitation, too, in FSX Controls menu and FSUIPC's. I'll have to wait and see if they do something "special" (like A2A does when it doesn't exist in the sim). But, I'm still waiting to buy because I want to do only a few installs; installing Patches are just TOO MUCH WORK for me.
Thanks again and Happy Flying!
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
MenendezDiego
Charter Member
The B-52 does look nice and for the price I'll probably give in and purchase it eventually. It'll be a real shame though if CS does not release a full version later with VC. This could stand a chance to be one of the best addon's of all time if they were to do so.
Darrell
Darrell
I am thinking that because of the fact that this thing has been in production for a few years now, they decided to give up on it. And to get a few bucks from it, they decided to release the Exterior of it to get some money. In my opinion, if they planned to make a VC later, they would have confirmed it.
Ian Warren
Charter Member
Im sure there will be some follow up simply because of the history , myself also no hesitation and see would be ideal in a multiplay arena .:salute:
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krazycolin
Banned
Well,,, given that CS is "maybe" not going to release a VC... I just happen to have one... Of course, coding that sucker might be tough... Maybe I could just make it look nice? Have the basic things move/operational and all switches animated but doing nothing?... Could I get away with that? Charge 12 bucks? Huh? Huh?
ps. I AM kidding...
ps. I AM kidding...
I'd pay 12 bucks for it :ernae:
ps. I know you said you're kidding, but seriously, there might just be a market for it
Darrell
Henry
Retired SOH Administrator
It's ten euros, Frank. Just in case you were wondering.
krazycolin
Banned
To do it in a cost effective way, there would be NO weathering and only the two front seats... basic animations on gauges but NO systems at all... (all switches would animate but not do anything. Throttles, flaps, and gear would "work" assuming they really did use the default codes...
I look at it this way though, it'd be better than what we are currently offered with it in the way of vc's. I was thinking of buying it and then modeling my own vc to use with it, doing just the basic coding also. Holeeeeeeeeee crap there are a LOT of switches to model
. I certainly wouldn't be above paying a reasonable price for a B-52 vc, especially of the quality, even without weathering, etc. that I'm sure you would do. I looked at the B-52 cockpit on your website and it looks good to me Darrell
Lovely model. Well worth the money for any spot view fliers out there.
I have made a few tweaks to it, though, cos I'm a fussy bastard when it comes to visual effects. I'll share a few fixes for anyone else who'd like to try them.
1. Changed the smoke opacity. As with their C-130, I think CS have overdone it with the smoke. It looks more like the days of early B-52s when they used water injection on take off than simply what the TF33 produces. So I've changed the following line of cs52_smoke.fx:
[ParticleAttributes.0]
...
Color Start=75, 75, 75, 10
to
Color Start=75, 75, 75, 5
2. Removed the wingtip vortices. There's no way you should be able to get vapour trailing off the wingtips on a dry day, whilst turning at 1.2Gs. Simple fix:
To the [EFFECTS] section in the aircraft config, add:
vaportrail_l=False
vaportrail_r=False
3. Repositioned the engine smoke. For some reason the smoke seems to be trailing from some point behind the engines, and is slightly out of place on other axes too. So I've edited the [smokesystem] entry to read:
smoke.0=-8, -62, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.4=-8, -57, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.1= 12, -36, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.5= 12, -31, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.2= 12, 31, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.6= 12, 36, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.3=-8, 57, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.7=-8, 62, -5, cs52_smoke
Note - the height of the engines changes when the wings are flexed, and part of the edit makes it so the smoke is emitted from where the engines are when the wings are flexed, and not with the wings sagging on the ground.
Here's the difference between the two (added white smoke for clarity - top 4 engines are edited, bottom 4 are the default entry):
View attachment 27101
And for anyone who doesn't know, Christoffer Petersen made an excellent sound pack for the B-52, available at flightsim.com (b52pwtrd.zip).
I have made a few tweaks to it, though, cos I'm a fussy bastard when it comes to visual effects. I'll share a few fixes for anyone else who'd like to try them.
1. Changed the smoke opacity. As with their C-130, I think CS have overdone it with the smoke. It looks more like the days of early B-52s when they used water injection on take off than simply what the TF33 produces. So I've changed the following line of cs52_smoke.fx:
[ParticleAttributes.0]
...
Color Start=75, 75, 75, 10
to
Color Start=75, 75, 75, 5
2. Removed the wingtip vortices. There's no way you should be able to get vapour trailing off the wingtips on a dry day, whilst turning at 1.2Gs. Simple fix:
To the [EFFECTS] section in the aircraft config, add:
vaportrail_l=False
vaportrail_r=False
3. Repositioned the engine smoke. For some reason the smoke seems to be trailing from some point behind the engines, and is slightly out of place on other axes too. So I've edited the [smokesystem] entry to read:
smoke.0=-8, -62, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.4=-8, -57, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.1= 12, -36, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.5= 12, -31, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.2= 12, 31, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.6= 12, 36, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.3=-8, 57, -5, cs52_smoke
smoke.7=-8, 62, -5, cs52_smoke
Note - the height of the engines changes when the wings are flexed, and part of the edit makes it so the smoke is emitted from where the engines are when the wings are flexed, and not with the wings sagging on the ground.
Here's the difference between the two (added white smoke for clarity - top 4 engines are edited, bottom 4 are the default entry):
View attachment 27101
And for anyone who doesn't know, Christoffer Petersen made an excellent sound pack for the B-52, available at flightsim.com (b52pwtrd.zip).
